A blog for the Alexandria, Virginia, Chapter of the Barbershop Harmony Society.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Looking Back on the Dec
5-6 Holiday Dinner Theater Shows

This year’s holiday shows were a great success in lots of ways
including great singing, a great mix of new music for our audiences (including
a sneak preview of “Thriller”), new fund raising efforts, a huge silent auction
extension of our online auction, great team work by all chorus members and
their families and the FRIENDS OF HARMONY, a sold out show for all three
performances including an extra table for a two shows, many fun costumes, and
some great laughs.

There were a lot of former Harmonizers in our audiences and there
was a great tribute to our friend Roger
Day in memory of his efforts to help us get into the holiday spirit over
the years.

The chorus worked almost all week on the show with Tuesday nite
rehearsal at First Baptist, tech nite, dress rehearsal, all day Thursday to
decorate and convert the church hall into Santa’s workshop, and then Friday
nite at 7:30, Saturday afternoon at 1 and Saturday nite at 6 for the
shows.

At the shows, we did the
usual warm ups with Tony, Will, Reed
Livergood and Joe.Joe
took some extra time to help us all rediscover the meaning/story behind some of
our holiday songs that helped us give them a fresh performance.

Here is the thank you note sent recently from show chairmen Josh Roots and Scipio Garling that gives a great summary of how many team players
it took to make the show weekend go!

“Josh and I would like to thank all of you for
the time and effort you put into making this year's holiday show the best ever
as well as a delightful experience for us, the participants, and the audience.

The
ultra-competent Production Triumvirate of Nick Leiserson (Producer), Christina Ammerman (Stage Manager) and Robyn Murane (House Manager), upon whom everything relied and
who made the show run so freakishly smoothly;

The
singers of the chorus, who are the centerpiece of our holiday tableau.

Truly, it is great to be a Harmonizer!Scipio
Garling and Josh Roots

So that is a wrap up of another great Harmonizer holiday show
weekend.

Until next time – editorjack!

(This
message is prepared for your review if you were there, for your information if
you had to miss, and as a historical record of the great things going on each
week during the 66th year of the Alexandria Harmonizer Chapter. —YeEd.